(English) Florida Current Is Weaker Now Than At Any Point In The Past Century

WOODS HOLE, Mass., Aug. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — A key component of the Gulf Stream has markedly slowed over the past century–that’s the conclusion of a new research paper in Nature Communications published on August 7. The study develops a method of tracking the strength of near-shore ocean currents using measurements made at the coast, offering the potential to reduce one of the biggest uncertainties related to observations of climate change over the past…